God’s Only Provided Place of Worship # 8
Wednesday Evening
Our Faith Isn’t
ripe
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Amazing grace, how sweet the
sound! See? Just no way of ever explaining what it is.
Just take my word if you believe me. Be sure to burn every bridge of the world behind you.
Before we move on further on
into this Message, I would like to just stop for a moment and ask you all, what
this means. To burn every bridge of the world behind you.
What does it mean to burn every bridge. What do you do
when you burn a bridge. Now, you know that what he is
saying here is not a literal thing thhat you are
supposed to do. HE is not telling you to go out and burn every bridge you can
find. Neither is he even suggesting that you burn even one physical bridge. But
what this expression is telling us is that we are to leave the world and the
things of the world behind.
Now here is the way this
expression came to being. During the great wars men would often be counted upon
to do great exploits for their countries. Sometimes they would have to go into
the enemies territory and perform their mission inside
the enemies gates. When the mission was complete, they were to leave there and
burn every bridge behind them. This would not allow them to be followed. In
other instances, this metaphor was used to express the brave men who would have to go on a great mission, one that was so important
and many times so trying that the men were often tempted to turn back. In order
to prevent them from turning back they were ordered to destroy any brdge they crossed over, any vehicle of excape
that would enable them to change their mind and turn away from their goal.
I believe this latter
meaning is what brother Branham is referring to here, when he says we should “Be sure to burn every bridge of the world behind you.” Now is this
part of the Message? Which is the shout?
1 Thess
Remember the Angel of the
Lord and brother Branham watching the preview of the saints. A mlitary prossession, singing
onward Christian soldiers. “ Stay in Line!”
1 Peter 1: 3 - 7, Wuest
= epochal and strategic = startegem = strategy
Luke 14: 25 - 33
2 Cor
10: 1 - 6
Exodus 14: 1 - all
Joshua 8: 1 - all
Heb 10: 38 - 39
Gal 5 :
1 - all
Heb 11: 1 - Moses:
God made it possible for Him to go on...How..He killed a man , burned
his bridge & had to flee Joseph: God
made it possible for Him to go on... through him in prison, used a friends wife
and false accusation and jealousy in his brothers to burn his bridges.
Abraham:
Start walking. Where? Don’t worry about it, start walking. He was ready
to burn every bridge ar God’s command. Even his own
son he was willing to offer back to God, not only his blood, but ashes also.
Daniel : God burned his bridges. Born in
captivity. Through him in a den of lions
Br.
Branham = God
kept honing Him until all his bridges were burned and there was no turning back.
What about you? Joey? Where could you go back to? A job, it’s
gone. A home, it’s
gone. A church? It’s gone. Press towaard the mark of the High calling.
Myself? 2 Tim 2: 2 - 7
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I believe the church is beginning to hear the Message, and beginning to understand. But friends,
listen, we've got to lay
in the Presence of the Son, we've got to be ripened. Our--our faith isn't ripe. Intellectually we're hearing the Message
that God has give us, and seeing the
signs that He showed us, and proving
it by the Bible as that; but, oh, how the
church needs to lay in His Presence till it tenders up in the heart, gets sweet
in the Spirit so that it can bathe down. Sometimes in speaking the
Message, you get harsh, have to break it in like that,
because you've got to clinch a nail to make it hold. But when the Church once gets It, the Elected
is called out and separated (then in the Presence of God), I know it'll be
something like the people was there when it takes its Rapture.
Phillipians 3: 7 - 21